Last week, Japanese singer Minami Minegishi shaved her head after a tabloid photographed her leaving a boy band member’s house. In the strict world of Japanese idols, dating boys is a no-no. Cover-ups, however, are totally fine. After Minegishi’s group AKB48 uploaded her shaved head video apology on its official YouTube channel, the clip soon…
Just when you think you’ve seen it all, you really have not. The wonderful world of Skyrim mods never ceases to delight and amaze. These screenshots recently popped up online in Japan, with a forum commenter pointing out that The Elders Scrolls V: Skyrim was a game in which you could play in a river…
Wii U title Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor’s Edge is headed to the PS3 and the Xbox 360, Famitsu is rumored to report.
There’s more than meets the eye at this year’s winter festival in the northern Japanese city of Asahikawa. There’s a huge Transformers snow sculpture. Since 1959, the city of Asahikawa has held an annual winter festival, and this year, Japanese toy maker Takara Toy is rolling out this enormous piece of snow art. “More Than…
Namco and Nintendo are teaming up for yet another Mario Kart arcade game. Details here
Legal eagle game series Ace Attorney has players use their wits as they collect evidence and go to trial. But the legal sleuth aspect isn’t only why fans love the Ace Attorney games. They love the sense of humor and colorful characters. The games have captured the imagination of players across the world, and the…
Microsoft’s Surface Pro sounded pretty good for gaming. Shame getting Civ V running sounds like pulling teeth
Well, this didn’t end like I thought it would. And by that I mean, I was hoping to actually get a look at Keith David. Ah well.
Here’s the brief for Quadrilateral Cowboy, an upcoming PC game by Blendo Games: When you have a top-of-the-line hacking deck armed with a 56.6k modem and a staggering 256k RAM, it means just one thing: you answer only to the highest bidder. The video above shows… well, I’m more interested than I was after reading…
The game itself may be dividing critics, but I’d hope there’s one thing we can all agree on, and that’s the fact that before the game’s frozen wastelands could be played, they first had to be drawn by some very talented people. We’ve featured Patrick’s work here before, but now that Dead Space 3 is…
There have few more puzzling game releases in the last decade than Bullet Run, a game published by Sony Online Entertainment that looked so generic and commercially pointless that you wondered how it was ever green-lit in the first place. Surprising absolutely nobody, then, aside from maybe those who had forgotten the game even existed,…
Let’s close our eyes and dream that, after post-apocalyptic waterworlds, train rides and gritty cowboy tales, Nintendo gets even braver and pushes the Legend of Zelda series into the future. Hoverboards, Robopona, the Master LightSword, the works. What could Link and Zelda look like? Well, they could look a lot worse than these ideas by…
Look, I get it, the character design for Street Fighter’s Cammy traditionally calls for a rather revealing lower section. But accuracy isn’t everything in cosplay. Sometimes what looks good on a screen looks… wrong in the flesh, and while authentic Cammy cosplay has its fans, I’ve always found it to be a bit much This…
What’s more adorable than Ni no Kuni? Homemade Ni no Kuni arts and crafts. Kotaku reader Thezombiemessia sent in photos of this fantastic Mr. Drippy plushie, which his wife made after buying the new PS3 role-playing game. I love it. I want one. Update: Want to make your own? Here are directions More photos, including…
I’m a big fan of Metronomes. They’re the copy-editors of musical performance: they keep you honest. When my sister sent me this video of French beatboxer Alem playing along with a metronome, I thought, “Okay.” Then, he kicked up the tempo a notch and I thought, “Wow.” Then, he kicked it up another notch, and…
You may remember the Hitman movie. It only came out in 2007. That’s enough time to have passed for Hollywood to have decided it’s time for another one, and this time, according to Deadline, it’s going to be a reboot. Of a so-so movie. Based on a franchise that was popular in 2007, but which…
We know, for the most part, what’s inside the PlayStation 4. We even know what the controller is going to be like. But until February 20 rolls around, we’re probably not going to see what Sony’s latest console looks like. To fill in the gaps, then, comes designer Gavin Ringquist, who has mocked up just…
Passing through immigration checkpoints can be a drag, but have you ever thought about what it must be like for the inspectors? In an upcoming game by developer Lucas Pope called Papers, Please you are tasked with examining documents and determining whether or not people can pass through the checkpoint. Some might be tourists. Some…
I think we’ve all been there: you’re young, you’re bored, you decide to write some poetry about your favorite video game. Actress/writer/musician/etc. Felicia Day sure seems to have been there, and she’s gone ahead and shared some of her 12-year-old self’s video-game poetry. It’s called “Avatar Isle,” and it’s a tribute to the Ultima series.…
If you buy the new Sly Cooper for PS3, you supposedly get the Vita version for free. It’s not working now. Sony’s on it.
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